2 honors students selected for Colorado PTK team

Vandenbark and Blumenshine recognized at ceremony

By Barbara Baker NJC marketing director

Posted:
03/25/2013 10:45:46 AM MDT

Jenna Vandenbark of Fleming (center) is congratulated for being named to the All Colorado PTK Academic Team by (left), Jay Lee, President of Northeastern and (right) Rich Martinez, President and CEO, Young Americans Center for Financial Education and Young Americans Bank, Denver. Martinez is also on the board for the State Board of Community Colleges and Occupational Education. (Courtesy Photo)

Chelsea Blumenshine of Fort Collins (center) is shown here at the PTK state awards luncheon with Northeastern Junior College President Jay Lee (left) and Rich Martinez, Vice Chairman for the State Board of Community Colleges and Occupational Education (right). (Courtesy Photo)

Two Northeastern Junior College students have been named to the 2012 Phi Theta Kappa All Colorado Academic Team. Jenna Vandenbark of Fleming and Chelsea Blumenshine of Fort Collins represent NJC as part of the Phi Theta Kappa All Colorado Academic Team and were recognized March 14 during a special ceremony and luncheon held in Denver. The event was sponsored by the Credit Union of Colorado.

Jenna Vandenbark is currently a sophomore attending NJC where she is majoring in business. She is an active student, participating in the honors program, student senate, Americorps, and serves as her PTK chapter president. Vandenbark played varsity volleyball at Northeastern for the last two seasons and also played basketball this year. On top of her extracurricular activities, Vandenbark also is a full-time student and carries a 4.0 grade point average.

After NJC, Vandenbark plans on transferring to a four-year university to continue her education and later open her own marketing business, as well as work in the real estate industry.

Chelsea Blumenshine attends Northeastern Junior College where she is a sophomore member of the NJC honors program. Blumenshine is the current president of college's Associated Student Government and enjoys helping with residence life programs on campus. Her freshmen year, Blumenshine was a pitcher for NJC's women's softball team and still enjoys playing softball. She also enjoys graphic design, interior design and anything crafty.

Advertisement

Chelsea is originally from Fort Collins, and plans to attend either the University of Northern Colorado or Colorado State University upon graduating from Northeastern Junior College.

Phi Theta Kappa (PTK) is a national organization that encourages and recognizes outstanding academic performance by students enrolled in two-year colleges nationwide.

Article Comments

We reserve the right to remove any comment that violates our ground rules, is spammy, NSFW, defamatory, rude, reckless to the community, etc.

We expect everyone to be respectful of other commenters. It's fine to have differences of opinion, but there's no need to act like a jerk.

Use your own words (don't copy and paste from elsewhere), be honest and don't pretend to be someone (or something) you're not.

Our commenting section is self-policing, so if you see a comment that violates our ground rules, flag it (mouse over to the far right of the commenter's name until you see the flag symbol and click that), then we'll review it.